SF is absolutely stunning as long as you don't look at it at eye level or below :). The "relocation to SF/Bay Area required" recruiter messages are the easiest ones to turn down.

“he sends his pure

sweet

love.”

🤣 LEGENDARY.

Do you remember how Stacy’s sold ad time to New Brunswick destinations? I used to BEG my parents to take me to Magnetic Hill in Moncton. “Come on, PLEASE? It’s only five hours away!”

Don’t get me started on “Dialing for Dollars with Eddie Driscoll!” My older siblings worshipped him!

Great Kingdom Emporium in Oxford (right next to the racetrack) has all kind of stuff in that general vibes. It shares a building with the flea market, so it's a great place to stop and spend a few hours picking through stuff.

Well that's the econ 101 version. Unfortunately, there are many more factors and most places aren't building enough housing to meet demand.

Yeah lol. We wanted to live near family for a bit before we moved back out of state. Neither of us are really in love with the area, so we figured getting a nicer apartment might make things more enjoyable for us.

I've lived in Bangor off and on since high school, and that apartment was definitely my favorite place I lived. It was newer, clean, didn't smell like cat piss, had central air, quiet upstairs neighbors, and reserved parking spots for us and guests.

The extra cost was definitely worth not having to deal with the stuff I went through at my previous Bangor rentals lol.

Back when I was looking to relocate to Maine. Bangor was the top of my list. It seemed like it was the perfect spot. Not too far from the shoreline, and not too far from the wilderness Northern ME has to offer.

Maybe our efforts to be environmentally conscious will lead to the Port of Portland's expansion. Interstate trucking doesn't come close to domestic shipping when it comes to efficiency.

I would go somewhere on the water, (Bar Harbor, Camden, Belfast) on the coast or up in the mountains (Sugarloaf, Rangeley, moosehead) I'm not sure where your originally from. I'm from the Bangor area and I don't know why anyone would want to "vacation" here but others may have more insight.

Bangor has been dying for years.

The mall is like a papermill property. Taking several years to even get something in there. The mall can't get the traction it once had despite changes in ownership

It's more of a connection point it seems. People who live up north or in smaller areas visit Bangor. UMO, Husson etc traffic.

That's it. You'll find more people at the EMMC ED, Walk in care etc, than you would people in a Walmart or the Mall.

Smiths General Store in Springfield sells pelts and animal faces next to their magazine/box wine rack. And it has a tiny deli and a picture of obscure Red Sox players. I think they have Andre Dawson and Tim Naehring pictures on the wall, and others. They sell some hardware and steel toed red gum rubber boots. It’s not dedicated to oddities but it is an oddity itself. I love it.

> there is crap leadership within the university system

Why is crap leaders in school systems such a universal sentiment?

Once they closed Miller’s everyone lost hope.

I remember Orphan Annie's in Auburn having some weird stuff.

I just can’t wait for summer, period.

Wrong comment

I hope the housing gets cheaper soon then.

Mellen*

$2500 a month to live in Bangor? 😬

Same here but not likely to expand too much beyond what they have now. We’ll what the new cold storage facility has for an effect.

I've said it here before, but the "deluxe" apartments fill a large niche gap in the market in Bangor - high-earners who don't want to own a home in the area.

When I was living in Bangor, my options for rentals at the time were:

• A couple of shitty crackdens on the low number streets for $600-700/m
• New and Old Capehart apartments for $1,100-1,300/m
• A single family home next to Broadway Park for $1,500/m
• A "luxury" downtown apartment that I actually liked (with reserved parking!) for $2,500/m

I ended up picking the expensive place, which was a good thing for everyone in the area who was looking for a place to live at that time who also made less than or had a worse credit score/history than me. My neighbors were all physicians, business owners, or fellow tech people who also opted to live in that building over in other parts of town.

The sad part is, the "quality" of those "luxury" apartments is on par with units in other parts of the country that were going for 1/3 of the price.

Back then the only city around that had a teen nightclub.

Not sure if this adds to the conversation, but as a skier from NJ that takes road trips to different parts of New England, Portland is a nice stop on the way to NH and Western Maine. Bangor is too far out of the way to reasonably consider stopping there. So that may be a factor for tourism money flowing into the city.

They have one or more others throughout the state!

chicken barn antiques and books might have something you’re looking for

Building deluxe apartments make other housing cheaper and in about 20 years they'll be regular apartments.